Species Geratarma tasmaniensis (Woodward, 1956)
- Regatarma tasmaniensis Woodward, T.E. 1956. A new species of Regatarma Woodward from Tasmania (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Rhyparochrominae). Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 141-145 [142].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♂, Mt Wellington, Hobart, TAS.
Paratype(s) AM; BMNH; EUQ; NMV; SAMA
Comment: 2♂ 3♀ paratypes designated.
Distribution
States
Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
TAS—Mt Field National Park, O'Grady's Fall.
IBRA
Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, flightless, granivore, ground dweller, herbivore, litter, rotting leaves, temperate, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Ex moss, wing polymorphism.
General References
Slater, J.A. 1964. A Catalogue of the Lygaeidae of the World. Storrs : University of Connecticut xviii 1668 pp. [866] (catalogue)
Slater, J.A. 1975. On the biology and zoogeography of Australian Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) with special reference to the southwest fauna. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 47-64 [55] (wing polymorphism)
History of changes
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